Captain John Smith's epitaph in St. Sepulchre's Church, London, where he
lies buried, gives Pocahontas' old friend the benefit of the doubt.
Succeeding generations, noting the "impossible" deeds he recounted
about himself, have sometimes suspected he was a liar of extraordinary
feather.

Now comes Biographer Bradford Smith* with information that seems to give
the truth back to Captain Smith and the lie to his detractors. In the
past, critics of...